Microsoft Update Error “SendRequestUsingProxy failed”

Having problems with:

WARNING: Send failed with hr = 80072ee2
WARNING: WinHttp: SendRequestToServerForFileInformation failed with 0x80072ee2

Try the following site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836941

Looking at the following command “netsh winhttp reset proxy” and checking the “%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” file